API 04-029-00816OrphanedOil well
Needham-Bloemer 5
Oil well in Kern County, California · operated by Citadel Exploration
Documented orphaned well. This well appears in the federal/state orphaned-well inventory — unplugged, with no solvent operator of record. See the orphan-well census for state and county totals and the $4.7B federal plugging program.
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Registry record
- API #
- 04-029-00816
- Status
- Orphaned(state code: USGS DOW 2022 (Idle))
- Type
- Oil(OG)
- Field
- Kern Bluff
- County
- Kern
- Coordinates
- 35.41317, -118.90798
- State record #
- 107639
Operator
- Wells operated
- 40
- Active
- 0
- States
- CA
- As filed
- Citadel Exploration Inc.
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| Well | API # | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norma 82 | 04-029-06243 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Mark Morris, Inc |
| Weedpatch 4 | 04-029-06508 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Chevron U.S.A. Inc. |
| Weedpatch 3 | 04-029-06507 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Chevron U.S.A. Inc. |
| Edison Securities (NCT-1) 1 | 04-029-06503 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Chevron U.S.A. Inc. |
| Cowan 1 | 04-029-14690 | Shut-in | Oil | Caballero Operations LLC |
| National Oil 5 | 04-029-47379 | Shut-in | Oil | Caballero Operations LLC |
Dataset updated . Source: California oil & gas regulator registry + the USGS documented-orphaned-wells inventory.